Vitor Costa

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Vitor Costa is a PhD candidate in International Relations (IR) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI/PUC-Rio), with a scholarship from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He holds a Master’s degree in IR from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), funded by the Bahia State Research Support Foundation (FAPESB), and a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities, also from UFBA. He was an associate researcher at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar – Ecuador (2019). He is a researcher with the Globalization of Politics Group and the Interpretations of Brazil Group, both linked to the IR Graduate Program at UFBA. Additionally, he serves as a Research Assistant at the IRI/PUC-Rio Methodology Laboratory. He is fluent in English and Spanish and has an intermediate level of French. His research interests include extractivist development, primitive accumulation of capital, and the links between class formation and racialization in capitalism.